Harry Potter and the Order Of the Phoenix [181]
“The spell I used on Sirius, the spell on used on you, the Magus Morpher, and the Sight Spell, and many more are all my own inventions. I have hundreds more ready to go as well.”
“The Magus Morpher? The Sight Spell?” said Harry. “Which ones are those?”
“Those were my first new spells,” said Voldemort. “They do not require any more magical power than I already had, but they are extremely useful anyway. The Magus Morpher allows an Animagus to see the human form of another Animagus, and the Sight Spell allows other people to see what someone else sees.”
Suddenly, it all became clear to Harry.
“So, the combination of those two spells is what you used to make every see Sirius in Diagon Alley,” said Harry. “Wormtail used to Magus Morpher on him, and then you used the Sight Spell on him. Everyone saw through Wormtail’s eyes that the dog was actually Sirius.” Voldemort clapped his hands.
“Very good, Harry,” he said. “You are quite good. However, you were not good enough to detect this trap, or to figure out the other two which I have planned, just in case this one happens to fail.”
“You mean, you have even more backup plans?” said Harry, amazed at how far ahead Voldemort planned.
“Ah yes,” he hissed. “I cannot tell you much about them, you know, but I can tell you that one of them has to do with your magical cousin.”
“Magical cousin? But, my only cousin is Dudley!”
“Yes, that’s him… Dudley,” said Voldemort. “We were going to force him to kill you. He could have been a very powerful wizard, all he needed was a little training and his powers could have rivaled mine.”
“No, there has to be some mistake,” said Harry. “Dudley? A wizard? No way! The Dursleys hate all magic! There’s no possible way Dudley could be a wizard!”
“And yet, there has to be, because he is…. Harry, when you were left at the Dursleys, there was a note in the basket you were in. It told the Dursleys about you, about what happened, and about me…. I am the reason they were so cruel to you! The only reason they mistreated you was to try and ‘beat’ the magic out of you, so that you would grow up leading a normal life, and would never have to deal with me. They wanted the best for you, Harry, but could never show it or else you may get your powers back that they had been trying to force out of you.
“As for Dudley being a wizard, I can assure you, he is. Remember, your mother an Petunia were twins, so they both had the same magical potential. Lily, however, was the one I decided to help, so when the time came for Hogwarts to choose who the newest students were going to be, Lily was on the list, and Petunia wasn’t, even though they both could do magic.
“Despite the fact that she didn’t get chosen for Hogwarts, that didn’t mean she lost her magic. When she had Dudley, he got her magical DNA, and he is a wizard. Not wanting you to have the Kinsafe Charm’s protection available to you at Hogwarts by having Dudley around you all the time, I made sure that his name was not down for Hogwarts, and that he never got a letter. And, since he hasn’t used magic his entire life, he is extremely ripe and ready to be picked, and can become very powerful. But, I’m sure you know about that magical theory.”
“No… I don’t…” whispered Harry, amazed at what Voldemort was telling him. The Dursleys had actually been trying to help Harry all of that time, Petunia hated Lily because she got accepted to Hogwarts and she didn’t, and Dudley was a wizard… it was all almost too much.
“What are they teaching you at that school of yours these days!?” yelled Voldemort. “Well, Harry, the first spell a wizard uses with his or her permanent wand determines the average power he or she will have for the rest of his or her life, and the longer a wizard waits before using a wand, the more powerful his or her first spell will be. So, Dudley can be a very powerful wizard, he has